Nine persons arrested and detained in Oyo Agodi Prison since 2020 have regained their freedom on Tuesday.
The protesters alias ‘Oyo9’ whose names are: Adeshina Muyiwa, Ikechuckwu Eze, Ariyo Sodiq, Ikenna Amaechi, Oyewole Olumide, Ariyo Afeez, Taoreed Abiodun, Adekunle Moruf, and Rasheed Tiamiyu, were charged for offences ranging from murder to stealing of police rifles, setting the police station ablaze, among others, in connection to the 2020 protest against the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigeria Force.
The development comes barely 24 hours after the Oyo State Chief Judge ordered the release of 58 detainees who had spent long periods in the state prisons. 
An activist , Solomon Eniola and the Oyo State leader of the #Take It Back Movement, an organisation that had been calling for the release of the Oyo nine confirmed the release of the nine persons.
“We are just returning from the prison, the nine of them have gone home with their families.”The TIB members had yesterday protested the continued detention of the Oyo9 following the release of the 58 detainees. They maintained that the Oyo9 should have been part of the people to be released.
Also on Monday, the Oyo State Chief Judge, Justice Munga Abimbola, released some inmates declaring that prolonged detention was a breach of people’s constitutional right, reiterating that the stand of the law is that a “person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
The CJ made this declaration at the Agodi Custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service, where he visited, as part of a three-day tour of prisons within the state.
